A Joan Crawford to avoid! At least in my opinion.....

I was looking back at some discussions from the last week or so and saw one on Joan Crawford signatures.

The photo below was offered up for discussion. It's one of of those many vintage looking ones that are dedicated to a Spanish language magazine which we've touched on in the past here. Not everyone has agreed with my thoughts on these but I'm convinced they are not good. I haven't seen one yet that I liked. Back in the day, Golden Age Autographs would not deal in them.

I just found the listing for it on eBay and, as I suspected, it's coming from an account in Florida.

I'd strongly recommend avoiding this:

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Permalink Reply by eddy on October 4, 2024 at 8:09am

p.s. Here's another from the same Florida source. It's sad that this has "watchers" .....

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 4, 2024 at 8:36am

That A&C is just awful.

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Permalink Reply by eddy on October 4, 2024 at 9:14am

I've been aware of these as bad for about 10 years. I even had some in my collection, unfortunately. They've since been destroyed by me.

Sadly, they have been so widely distributed over the years (primarily via eBay) that other dealers and collectors who have purchased them have been reselling them for a long while now. So you can find them from all kinds of sources these days. I'd give most later resellers the benefit of the doubt that they aren't aware of the dubious nature of them.